Grateful Dead

Sounds like a great title for the 2024 Box Set. If it came with a small orange shaped barrel candy looking tablet, all the better, but I'd settle for licking the corners of the liner notes.

Now that we got 6-10-73.. It's time to change the date on the wayback machine.

Although I listen to it all some more than others, it was the Primal stuff that got me into the Grateful Dead.

Skippin' through the lily fields I came across an empty space,
It trembled and exploded, left a bus stop in it's place.

Hi everyone, just wanted to drop by and say Happy Birthday to that rascally prankster and favorite clown Hugh "Wavy Gravy" Romney on his 87th trip around the sun. Thanks for the memories and more kazoo please. Liberate the 67-69 reels, any rare bits that are in the vault, I want to hear, for sure.

Hey Phil C, hope all is well!! Never fear, the box set will be out soon!

For the WOTF 50th, I'd really really really like the bonus stuff to be a nicely cleaned up version of 8/1/73, Garcia's birthday, Dark Star, needs no further explanation.............

I'm trying so so hard to love the latest DaP, but I'm struggling. I actually like the bonus disc material better. Of course, it's just me and my foibles......

Sometimes, lovely surprises come out of things going wrong.......

Rock on!!

Doc
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself............

Maybe they could start this box with a recording from an acid test. A quick sprint through 1966 and early 1967, landing in the fall of that year, and then on to the culmination of acid test inspired music ( that's what it sounds like to me) with a few colourful shows from 1968. All boxed in high art with period piece essays. No need for tee shirts, though.
Maybe a few shows from early 1969 - although they really deserve a box of their own, leading up to those Ark shows. Hey, I don't know what I'm talking about.

Oro, buddy, hope you're well. I'm just tossing out ideas and would be the first to admit I have no idea what's in the Vault or on the checklist of realistic projects.

So... if they put together a box of X number of discs of early '67 to late '68, of course I'm plunking down my money. I guess as long we're dreaming out loud, make the '68 box as obnoxiously large as possible. I hate the phrase "we're running outta time," probably because it's true. As Dylan sang, "anything can happen now to anyone," and I keep thinking he was talking about me! To your point, pretty soon when someone says "68" we'll smell a fart and think they said "something I ate."

Methinks that the OSF discovery of June '68 has to have "them" thinking about how to monetize the early material. And we're here to help. If only "they" would call me........

Meanwhile, there's a ton of fall '72 hanging fire. And when will they reveal the WotF 50th package? (With Watkins Glen soundcheck???)

And when will I climb in my pickup and drive to, say, Asia, so I can listen to the shows I've already got?

If money be the issue and you don't want it to be sitting on the shelf collecting dust.

Stop with the trinkets! I would think this is the shit that sits on a shelf in a warehouse and just continues to get shitted up. Or is there more money in the t-shirts and mushrooms tools?

They could have an annual sale of stuff they need to get rid of. But it would further seem that if you add up all the unsold collections (how many Dave's 46 can there be) this would be a VERY small amount of inventory for WMG/Rhino. This is a big company producing many artist,,,, how many Taylor Swift's are there sitting on shelves?

Stop with the trinkets, but bring the axe back :-)

I think yer on to something Billy!
“The Banana Box” damn thing’d market it self lol

That is the question DMCVT: would there be enough support?
I’m guessing that if it was sexy enough and with the hype us freaks would be kicking up, perhaps it would entice more occasional shoppers to climb aboard? But who knows?

But Dave’s not going to do this forever, and if the cooling off of sales is going to be a trend, then at some point they theoretically could cut way back, or gulp….stop releasing entirely! 🥶
So get out the way, don’t just stand there dreaming, #release the reels!

In the banana boxes. The Banana Box Set. Release it all in one box set. That tops them all!

Oro, I like the way you think and I would buy a big late 60s, but how many others? Perhaps I was thinking, the River box has been out for eighteen months, not sold out. The MSG box has been out for eight months, not sold out. The Sunshine box, who knows, will surely be available for a while yet, even at the reduction to 10K. Both Dave's 45 and 46 still available. WMG might be looking hard at another big disc number production from a period where some of us are rabid enough, but how many. And would love to see it sooner than later, the bigger the project, the longer it takes.